{"id":154,"date":"2017-09-15T16:22:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T16:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2018-03-08T02:01:10","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T02:01:10","slug":"more-thoughts-on-everyday-headspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/2017\/09\/15\/more-thoughts-on-everyday-headspace\/","title":{"rendered":"More thoughts on Everyday Headspace"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay! So I may have rushed my post from yesterday<\/a> a little bit. Those are still good questions to ask as designers, but after a little more reflection and conversation, I think there was a little something else going on in my judgment of the new Everyday Headspace feature.<\/p>\n

Mainly, I was jealous. Headspace is obviously a huge business. I’m just beginning to start out, and that size and presence and seeming success is definitely intimidating to me. So I wanted to poke holes.<\/p>\n

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Yes, it is a tricky line to walk between drawing customers in to the app and creating a healthy environment. And Headspace knows that. I think my jealousy didn’t allow me to see how Headspace Everyday could actually be a positive thing for many people.<\/p>\n

If you’re having a hard time sticking with your practice, it may be just the easy, simple introduction you need. If you’re not looking to sit for 15 minutes today, and you’ve done the 1-minute single three times in the past two weeks, maybe you want something a little novel. Headspace Everyday could be perfect for that. In those scenarios, it’s definitely there for you when you need it in a non-pushy sort of way, and that’s great.<\/p>\n

For me, I love my packs. I’m on my third time through the Pain Management pack, and I may just repeat it forever and ever until I die, amen. That the daily meditation is on my home screen does feel a little bit like a to-do item I didn’t sign up for, and a single “X” button to remove it would solve that problem in a single tap. Maybe it could move to its own area in the Singles tab after doing so?<\/p>\n

The point is, there are lots of potential solutions to this minor issue in what is potentially a big help to many people. That I was jealous (and relatedly fearful of my own business’ failure) made the molehill into a mountain in my mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay! So I may have rushed my post from yesterday a little bit. Those are still good questions to ask as designers, but after a little more reflection and conversation, I think there was a little something else going on in my judgment of the new Everyday Headspace feature. Mainly, I was jealous. Headspace is… Continue reading More thoughts on Everyday Headspace<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mindfulness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wideopengames.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}